Commonwealth Ex Rel. Taylor v. Taylor

HOFFMAN, Judge:

This appeal is from an order which declared appellant-father to be in contempt of a custody order of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas and directed him to return the parties’ two children to appellee-mother. Because we find that the contempt order was erroneously entered, we reverse.

The parties were married in 1969 and parented two children: Akili Sule, born on May 9, 1974, and Zalika Aisha, born on August 9, 1976. The family resided in Chester County, Pennsylvania, until December of 1980, when appellee left the marital home with the children and moved to Newark,…